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Shadows on the Moon
Zoe Marriott
A prize-winning reinvention of the familiar Cinderella story set in a richly created Japanese setting, this is a powerful and haunting novel shot through with romance. Suzume is a shadow-weaver; she can become whoever she wants except her true self....
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011

No Use Crying
Zannah Kearns
This warm and powerful coming-of-age story is a sparkling debut from a brilliant fresh talent, filled with colourful characters that will stay with you long after the book is finished.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011

Dead Beautiful
Yvonne Woon
Dark romance meets haunting murder mystery in this captivating tale of love, death and destiny.At Gottfried Academy, just one kiss will take your breath away. After Renee discovers her parents dead in what appears to be a strange...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011

Life Eternal
Yvonne Woon
May 2012 New Gen Book of the Month. Matters of life and death and the role of a passionate romance in them lie at the heart of this spellbinding story of how the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2012

Rich and Mad
William Nicholson
April 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Full of the myriad and criss-crossing emotions of adolescent love, this is a warm-hearted and finely observed view of two teenagers’ experience. Sixth-formers Maddy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2009

The Princess Bride
William Goldman
Simply one of the best swashbuckling, romantic, adventure stories ever written. From pirates and duels to giants and hunchbacks and romance and comedy there is something here that will appeal to everyone. It may all sound a bit corny but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008

Lord of the Flies
William Golding
William Golding’s iconic and enduring novel is interesting in many ways. Firstly it was a debut book and secondly it was rejected by numerous publishers and editors before it was picked up off the ‘slush-pile’ by a young editor at...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011

The Inheritors
William Golding
This was Golding’s 2nd published novel and hailed by critics as his best, so startling was it that one, Arthur Koestler, described it as ‘an earthquake in the petrified forests of the English Novel’.55 years on the novel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011

Department 19
Will Hill
This is a well crafted debut paranormal novel for teens but it's much more than that for it features a cleverly laid plot that revolves around a government secret agency who pull into the organisation a 14 year old Jamie...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2011

Department 19
Will Hill
One of our New Gen Debuts of the Year 2011. This is a well crafted debut paranormal novel for teens but it's much more than that for it features a cleverly laid plot that revolves around a government secret agency who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011

Department 19: The Rising
Will Hill
Blockbusting sequel to Department 19, the biggest boy teen launch of 2011 - with over 25,000 copies sold in hardback and a devoted legion of Facebook fans. Amazing author Will Hill will be out on the road again in April...
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/03/2012

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
One of Sue Perkins' favourite books. T S Eliot called The Moonstone 'the first and greatest of English detective novels'. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/1998

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup
A great slant on the phenomenon of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" with a young boy from the streets of India winning a million rupees, only to be thrown in jail as a fraudster. However, there is no coughing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009

Divergent
Veronica Roth
May 2011 New Gen Debut of the Month. This is a heart-pounding and thrilling urban dystopian fiction debut from an exciting young author. Divergent is a novel of non-stop suspense and twists and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2011

Divergent
Veronica Roth
This is a heart-pounding and thrilling urban dystopian fiction debut from an exciting young author. Divergent is a novel of non-stop suspense and twists and turn that you least expect. There's romance too and a heroine who is determined to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Insurgent
Veronica Roth
May 2012 New Gen Book of the Month. This is heart-pounding dystopian fiction at its very best. Insurgent is the thrillingly dark sequel to the New York Times bestselling debut, Divergent. No...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2012

Angelmonster
Veronica Bennett
Sixteen-year-old step sisters Mary and Jane are bored. Longing for romance they dream of attracting the attention of a rich and handsome man who will take them away to somewhere foreign and interesting. When the poet Shelley walks...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2005

Cassandra's Sister
Veronica Bennett
How Jane Austen might have dealt with the dilemmas of families, friends and, above all, what she herself might feel about falling in love is skilfully and wittily explored. With a cast of new characters and a genuinely...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006

Lilah May's Manic Days
Vanessa Curtis
Life is complicated for Lilah. Her family falls apart when her brother Jay disappears. Managing her anger is only possible because of her great friendship with Bindi. Now Jay suddenly returns. All should be well – but it isn’t. Lilah...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Message in a Bottle
Valerie Zenatti
A poignant story of love across a war torn divide. Moved to think about those on the 'other side' after a suicide attack outside her home, seventeen year old Tal sends out a message in a bottle. Soon she is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008

Shooting The Moon
V M Jones
A coming-of-age novel of a young man whose life is a balancing act between his passion – rock climbing - and his domineering father’s ambitions for him. As he confronts his life head on, events spiral out of control and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008

Siren
Tricia Rayburn
This page-turning, roller-coaster story is vividly told by seventeen year old Vanessa, the timid younger sister who has always relied on her older sister Justine for protection. From the first day of their regular summer visit to their beach home,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2011

Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy
One of our New Gen Debuts of the Year 2011. A touching and thought-provoking story set in contemporary Afghanistan, Words in the Dust uncovers how the lives of women and girls are changing. Zulaikha, a younger sister born with a disfiguring...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011

Ghostgirl
Tonya Hurley
A satirical yet heartfelt exploration of the invisibility we all feel at times and the lengths we will go to be seen. This book is a real style accessory for teenage girls with its classy pink and black package and...
Format: Book - Released: 07/08/2008

Ghostgirl: Homecoming
Tonya Hurley
More adventures from Charlotte, the Ghost Girl of the title. Discovering she still hasn't made it through to the afterlife just yet, Charlotte finds herself having to complete an internship helping troubled teens. A welcome return for this funny, mixed-up,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009

Ghostgirl : Lovesick
Tonya Hurley
Third in the GHOSTGIRL series although each novel can be read as a stand alone. Tonya Hurley comes up trumps again with a storyline that will speak volumes to teen/young adult readers. There's laughter and there's heart ache and even...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/05/2011

Blood on My Hands
Todd Strasser
This is a psychological thriller from a bestselling American author. Wrongly accused of her best friend's murder, now she's on the run...When seventeen-year-old Callie Carson is found standing over the body of her best friend holding the knife that killed...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011

Kill You Last
Todd Strasser
This is a powerful and uncompromising thriller and not for the faint-hearted. It is the third crime thriller from a bestselling American authorwho 'really has his finger on the way kids think' (The New York Times). It offers all the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

Blink and Caution
Tim Wynne-Jones
Award-winning crime writer Tim Wynne-Jones toughly tells a gripping and poignant story of two teens swept up into a major crime. Blink is only a skinny kid who’s on the run and surviving on his wits; Caution is also on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Doglands
Tim Willocks
A gripping adventure, Doglands is also a stirring comment on power and those who wield it and bravery and those who can show it. Furgal, Keeva’s first-born pup, is born in a prison camp for greyhounds run by the cruel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012